University of Northern Iowa Athletics
2011 Football Roster
Roster
Will Eilert
- Position:
- Defensive Line
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- Grinnell, Iowa
- High School:
- Grinnell
2010: Played in 11 games on the defensive line, drawing eight starting assignments ... tied for second on the team with 6.0 sacks on the season ... fourth on the team with 9.0 TFLs ... made 36 total tackles on the season, with 21 being solo stops ... registered two tackles and one sack at Iowa State (9/25) ... credited with four tackles each against Southern Illinois (10/9) and South Dakota (10/16) ... tallied five tackles and a sack in UNI's 42-14 win over Illinois State (10/23) ... added five more tackles in the Panthers' 34-30 road victory at Youngstown State (10/30) ... notched 1.5 sacks in a win at Indiana State (11/6) ... posted a season-high seven tackles and one sack in UNI's 38-14 triumph over Missouri State (11/13) ... recovered a fumble at Western Illinois (11/20) ... registered one sack and 2.0 TFLs against Lehigh in the FCS Playoffs.
2009: Played in nine games, primarily as a blocking tight end and on special teams ... made two kick returns for a total of 15 yards.
2008: Was used primarily in goal-line and short-yardage situations as a third tight end ... did not record a statistic ... made his first career start in a goal-line situation in UNI's 34-24 victory at Southern Utah (11/22).
2007: Redshirted.
High School: Earned first-team all-state Class 3A honors from the Iowa Newspaper Association and Des Moines Register as a junior and senior ... first-team all-district selection as a junior and senior ... KGRN all-area first-team as a junior and senior ... 2007 Shrine Bowl All-Star game invitee ... all-conference basketball player ... state track qualifier in the shot put and discus ... all-conference and all-district baseball player ... high school coach: Jim Dunne.
Personal: Born Oct. 22, 1988, in Grinnell, Iowa ... son of Dave Eilert and Amy Graves ... has three siblings (Sara, Jesse, Melissa) ... majoring in finance.
Eilert's Career Defensive Stats
Year G-GS UT AT Total TFL Sacks INT FF FR PBU
2010 11-8 21 15 36 9.0 6.0 0 0 1 1
Totals 21 15 36 9.0 6.0 0 0 1 1
Eilert's Game-By-Game Tackling Stats (Solo-Ast)
2010
North Dakota St. DNP
Stephen F. Austin 1-0
@Iowa State 2-0
South Dakota St. 0-0
@Southern Illinois 4-0
@South Dakota 2-2
Illinois State 3-2
@Youngstown St. 2-3
@Indiana State 2-1
Missouri State 2-5
@Western Illinois 1-2
Lehigh 2-0
